Which to use
“serrées” and “serrures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,692
- “serrées” frequency rank
- #25,126
- “serrures” frequency rank
- 48818
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | serrées | serrures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de serrée. | Pluriel de serrure. |
Where the eye mixes serrées and serrures
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: serrées vs serrures
A purely visual mix-up. serrées (\se.ʁe\) and serrures (\se.ʁyʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48818, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
serrées is recorded at frequency rank #23,692, classified as anoun, pronounced \se.ʁe\. serrures is at rank #25,126, tagged as anoun, pronounced \se.ʁyʁ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 48818, this pair ranks #175,802 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of serrées vs serrures
Shared letters: ers. Private to "serrées": é. Private to "serrures": u.
"serrées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC · "serrures" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- serrures ← esrrures · serrrues · serruers · serruress · serrurres · serrurse · serures · serurres
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "serrées" and "serrures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "serrées" or "serrures" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "serrées" and "serrures" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "serrées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "serrures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #175,802 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "serrées" and "serrures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "serrées vs serrez". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #175,802 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.